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The military surveyor rarely gets recognition for the excellent work they do in support of construction, mapping, and geospatial intelligence. If there are any active or prior military LSU members…Read more →

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The military surveyor rarely gets recognition for the excellent work they do in support of construction, mapping, and geospatial intelligence. If there are any active or prior military LSU members out there it would be nice to know what types of surveys you've been involved in and photos if you have them. I was a construction surveyor (82B) and engineer technician (51T) in the US Army. It was a great influence on my civilian career and I got to participate in some very large scale projects…See More

"Typically if Topcon Tools is asking for a specific geoid model it is looking for the same model used in the data collector. If this is the case you can simply copy the geoid model from your data collector to your PC - a directory of your choice.…"

These "hubs" are much more sophisticated than what we are used to seeing in the U.S.. The hubs are often made of a hard synthetic compound that are pointed for easier driving. the cap is made of some type of non-corrosive metal with a nail or tack…

"Thanks Paul. Yes Alaska surveying was very rough - but very beautiful, as you know. The project was on Annette Island near Ketchikan, AK.
Good to hear from you - looks like you've been staying busy!
-Ken"

"Hey Ken,
Great picture, it must have been an interesting project. That looks very familiar, I spent a season in Alaska building roads. It was awesome, had a chance to go salmon fishing, saw bears, moose, eagles, whales...I was lucky.
Since…"

"See if you can locate this guy I was helping him some months [email protected] kevin hollar he was just the first that came to mine. He was working in the middle east as gov. contractor and is from NC
Skip Farrow"

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Professional Land Surveyor and President of 82 Bravo, LLC. Providing educational seminars, training and support for commercial and government clients using the latest positioning technologies such as robotics, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), laser scanning, mobile LiDAR, and GIS data collection.

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